Don Giovanni
‘Give up women? Are you mad!’
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Friday 19 May, 5.05pm
Sunday 21 May, 3.50pm
Thursday 25 May, 5.05pm
Sunday 28 May, 3.50pm
Wednesday 31 May, 5.05pm
Saturday 3 June, 5.05pm
Tuesday 6 June, 5.05pm
Friday 9 June, 5.05pm
Wednesday 14 June, 5.05pm
Saturday 17 June, 5.05pm
Wednesday 21 June, 5.05pm
Saturday 24 June, 5.05pm
Tuesday 27 June, 5.05pm
Sunday 2 July, 3.50pm
Saturday 8 July, 5.05pm
Thursday 13 July, 5.05pm
Saturday 15 July, 5.05pm
For performance timings and pricing please download a PDF version of the Festival 2023 performance schedule here.
About the opera
Womanising aristocrat Don Giovanni lives a life of debauchery and pleasure, seducing and abandoning women wherever he goes. But when a seduction goes horribly wrong, he finally finds himself in a situation he cannot charm his way out of.
The Don Juan legend takes breathless and exhilarating form in Mozart’s tragicomedy – a work ETA Hoffmann once called ‘The opera of all operas’. Shakespearean in its breadth of emotion, Don Giovanni slips from laughter and physical farce to brutal psychodrama in a second, a dramatic whirlpool whose inexorable tug pulls both its hero and audience down further and further towards its explosive conclusion. A score of singular power drives the action forwards, seducing its listeners with serenades and love-songs, richly layered ensembles and intricate finales. At the centre of it all is the Don himself, a musical cipher as charismatic as he is unknowable.
Mariame Clément directs Glyndebourne’s first new Don Giovanni in over a decade. Rising-star conductor Evan Rogister makes his Festival debut.
A new production for Festival 2023. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Creative team
Conductor
Evan Rogister
Director
Mariame Clément
Designer
Julia Hansen
Lighting Designer
Bernd Purkrabek
Projection Designer
Etienne Guiol
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Chorus Director
Aidan Oliver
Cast includes
Don Giovanni
Andrey Zhilikhovsky
Andrei Bondarenko (27 June & 2, 8 July)
Donna Anna
Venera Gimadieva
Don Ottavio
Oleksiy Palchykov
Donna Elvira
Ruzan Mantashyan
Leporello
Mikhail Timoshenko
Zerlina
Victoria Randem
Masetto
Michael Mofidian
Il Commendatore
Jerzy Butryn
Filming supported by Brian Mitchell Charitable Settlement
To find out more about production support for Festival 2023 click here
or contact our Director of Development, Helen McCarthy for an informal chat:
call 01273 815 032 or email helen.mccarthy@glyndebourne.com
Illustration © Katie Ponder